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John Tinsley A Mind Three Different Ways

John E. Tinsley was born in 1920 in Chestnut Mountain, Virginia and later moved to Henry County in an area just outside of Martinsville. According to the liner notes of Smithsonian Folkways Compilation Virginia Traditions: West Piedmont Blues, which featured two John Tinsley recordings, Tinsley began playing guitar at the age of 11, at the behest of his neighbor. He would go on to be influenced by other Piedmont and East Coast bluesmen such as Blind Boy Fuller, Josh White and Buddy Moss. However, it wasn't until 1952 that Tinsley and friend, Fred Holland, first recorded any of Tinsley's repertoire. Bassett, Virginia's Mutual Records released 'Truble Blues' and 'Keep Your Hands Off Her' as a 78 that year. Following the poor sales of the 'Truble Blues' 78, a discouraged Tinsley briefly left the world of secular music behind, playing religious music exclusively in the mid-1950s and 60s. He learned how to play the guitar around the age of eleven, learning chords from the brothers Bob and Fred Holland, who worked as a duo playing mostly hillbilly music. At eighteen John bought his first guitar and started to play at square dances, where people did the flat foot and the old Virginia breakdown. They would move all the furniture out of the room where the dance was held and the musicians would take turns and play just for free drinks and eating. Once in a while. John played with J.P. Young, who blew harmonica. and incidentally married a sister of John's wife. John learned most of his songs from records or from other musicians, always adding his own ideas. Apart from that he made up some good blues himself. He stayed in Franklin County until the late. forties, doing farm work. He moved to nearby Basset, where, in 1952, he made his first recordings, issued on the local Mutual label. It didn't give him the break he had hoped for and by 1955 he quit playing. Twenty-two years later he was contacted by Roddy Moore of Ferrum College and started to play blues again, this time at colleges and festivals. Recordings were made by Kip Lornell for BRI and a whole LP was issued on the Outlet label. On this he was accompanied by his old sidekick J.P. Young and his son John W. on piano.